S105 - 2021 Appropriations Act. (SL 2021-180)

Overview: Section 9I.7 of S.L. 2021-180 directs the North Carolina Child Support Services Section (NCCSS), Division of Social Services, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), to retain up to 15% of annual federal incentive payments for the enhancement of centralized child support services and to allocate the remainder of the annual federal incentive payments to county child support services programs for the improvement of program effectiveness and efficiency. NCCSS must require county child support services programs to submit annual plans on how the federal incentive payments will be used and on the federal funds received. NCCSS must submit a report on federal child support incentive funding to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services and the Fiscal Research Division by November 1 of each year.

This section became effective July 1, 2021.